The "art Revolution" And The Emergence Of Chinese Modern Art Criticism

This article reiterates the May Fourth Movement as the starting point for China's modern art criticism,and selects the "Art Revolution" as the entry point for the study.The reasons are as follows:1.The "Art Revolution" brings "Fine Art" to the perspective of modern criticism for the first time.It fundamentally triggered some basic problems in the "modernity" of Chinese modern art,such as the value propositions of tradition and modernity,progress and decline,new and old,and imitation and creation.2.The "Art Revolution" opened the prelude to the raging Chinese New Art Movement in the 1920s and 1930s.Whether it was the exploration of modern Chinese paintings in the vision of the "New Chinese Painting Movement"in the perspective of Chinese and Western cultures,or the "Foreign Painting Movement",the introduction of western modern art Trends,or "emerging woodcarving movements",advocate revolutionary and popular art.These new art movements formed by different academic contexts have disputes,conflicts,and even paradoxes in their artistic concepts both within and between them.The historical scene of the emergence and practice of modern Chinese art criticism.Among them,the author focuses on examining the historical context of criticism from the "Art Revolution" to the "Foreign Painting Movement":The first chapter mainly discusses the issue of how "criticism" as a new doctrine is established in China,including examining from the perspective of concept history.Criticism of the word "criticism",the "criticism" of the May 4th New Culture Movement and what is "true criticism";the second chapter is a detailed analysis of the text of "Art Revolution" written by Lu Cheng and Chen Duxiu from the standpoint of the history of criticism.The focus is on the discussion of the "Fine Art" view,critical discourse,and internal ideological lines;the third chapter focuses on the historical picture of the "Foreign Painting Movement" and its practice of critical discourse,including the translation,introduction,and dissemination of western literary criticism theory.The"Creation" as the core of the performance of criticism and the "personality" theory of criticism paradigm.The author believes that the most fundamental part of the emergence of Chinese modern art criticism marked by the "Art Revolutionl" lies in the promotion and certain dominant role of "criticism" in the art movement.One of its basic characteristics is that criticism and art movement accompany it,and it is basically part of the art movement.The critical discourse and theoretical paradigm with"genius" and "personality" at the core of this period were produced and applied to the "Enlightenment" context and historical logic created by the pioneers of the May 4th Movement,presenting a kind of integrality and romanticism characterized by personal creativity.